The centromere: Chromatin foundation for the kinetochore machinery

Developmental Cell

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 496-508

  Fukagawa, Tatsuo ^a   Earnshaw, William C ^b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; COHESIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; REPETITIVE DNA; AUTOANTIGEN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CENTROMERE; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HORSE; HUMAN; HUMAN ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; KINETOCHORE MICROTUBULE; M PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; ORANG UTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CENTROMERE; CHICKENS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL; HISTONES; HORSES; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MICE; NUCLEOSOMES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 84908218352     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.08.016     Document Type: Review

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